期刊
PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS
卷 21, 期 -, 页码 41-54出版社
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2016.06.001
关键词
Vegetation structure; Soil depth; Soil moisture; Metabolomics; Quercus ilex
资金
- CSIC
- Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain
- European Research Council Synergy grant [SyG-2013-610028 IMBALANCE-P]
- Spanish Government [CGL2013-48074-P, OAPN 022/2008]
- Catalan Government [SGR 2014-274]
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports [LO1415, LM2015061, CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0246]
- Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The upper soil provides support, water, and nutrients to terrestrial plants and is therefore crucial for forest dynamics. We hypothesised that a tree's metabolic activity (and therefore its metabolome; the total set of metabolites) would be affected by both the depth of upper soil layers and water availability. We sampled leaves for stoichiometric and metabolomic analyses once per season from differently sized Quercus ilex trees under natural and experimental drought conditions representing the likely conditions in the coming decades). Although the metabolomes varied according to tree size, smaller trees did not show higher concentrations of biomarker metabolites related to drought stress. However, the effect of the drought treatment on the metabolomes was greatest for small trees growing in shallow soils. Our results suggest that tree size is more dependent on the depth of the upper soil, which indirectly affects a tree's metabolome, rather than on the moisture content in the upper soil. Metabolomic profiling of Q. ilex supports our finding that water availability in the upper soil is not necessarily correlated with tree size. The higher impact of drought on trees growing in shallower soils nevertheless indicates that any increase in the frequency, intensity, and duration of drought - as has been projected for the Mediterranean Basin and other areas - would affect small trees most. Metabolomics has proved to be a useful means for investigating the links between plant metabolism and environmental conditions. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
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